Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the U.S. However, I would like to offer a post for a World’s Thanksgiving. I would like to offer a tribute to Stanislav Petrov, a Russian, whose calm, rational thinking prevented WWIII in 1983.

An anti-ballistic warning system issued several alarms, indicating that the U.S. had fired a missile towards Russia. Petrov kept his cool and reported the warnings as false alarms. Later, it turned out that a cloud clover had caused a malfunction in the system.

Stanislav Petrov is no longer with us, but we can be grateful and proud that such a man was there at such a critical time. Let the whole world give thanks to this Russian hero.